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doubtless also belonging to female figui-es, are giv^en in d and e^ fio-ure 

 18, one a back, the other a front, view. The latter strongh- reminds 

 us of the festive headdress of an Indian woman whose picture Stoll 

 gives in his contributions to the ethnology of the Indian races of 

 Guatemala/' These two fragments came from San Juan Chamelco. 

 Both the cloth wound around the body and the neck decoration are also 

 very distinctly seen in the fragment shown in h, figure 10, which like- 

 wise came from San Juan Chamelco. Here again on the neck cord 

 are strung two quadrangular prismatic beads on each side of a small 

 mask, which must have been heavy, for it was held by a separate band 

 or strap passing over the shoulder. A small pottery pipe of the Sarg 

 collection, which comes from Coban ( /, figure 18) shows a woman with 

 a cloth around the body, carrying a large water jug on her shoulder, 

 who has the same way of dressing the hair as c, figure 18, also large 

 square ear plates. 



The forms a and c, figure 19, are male heads. The latter, which comes 

 from San Juan Chamelco, is characterized by a large nose bar. The 

 former, which comes from Sesis, is distinguished b}^ a clearly defined 

 and strongl}^ modeled mustache and a foldlike elevation on the fore- 

 head above the I'oot of the nose. 1 saw a mustache marked in a 

 similar wa}^ on a head in the Dieseldorfi' collection. A mustache and 

 beard are likewise clearly present in a relief {e^ figure 1J»), from Petet, 

 near Coban, now in the Sarg collection. In the remarkable vessel 

 from Chama which Mr Dieseldorff described in the Zeitschrift fiir 

 Ethnologic* all the persons of the group at the left of the picture 

 are distinguished by a more or less prominent growth of hair on the 

 upper lip and chin. I believe that we have here, if not an anthro- 

 pologic distinction, certainl}^ an ethnologic one, and, at the same time, 

 proof that the heads and reliefs which I have copied here were made 

 in the same region as the painted pots of Chama or, at least, in some 

 adjacent region, which increases the probability that none of these 

 articles were importations, but were made on the spot. 



The two reliefs e and /belong to the Sarg collection. The former 

 was found in Petet, the latter in Chicojoito, near Coban.' Unfortu- 

 natelj% both are fragments and must each be assigned to a separate 

 group of figures. They are male figures. That at e distinctly shows 

 a mustache and beard; f shows them less clearly. The manner of 

 dressing the hair seems to be the same in both. It is long and hanging 

 down behind, and is cut off over the forehead, just as the Dominican 

 monks described it as being worn among the Qu'ekchis and the Chols. 

 It was, as we know, a very difficult task for the monks to persuade their 



a Internationales Archiv fur Ethnographic (Leiden), supplement to v. 1, pi. ii, fig. 15. 



bl894, V. 26, pi. Vll. 



o\ am familiar with similar quadrangular pottery reliefs bordered by broad stripes from Teotitlan 

 del Camino in the State of Oaxaca. They all appear to be parts of square seat-like foundations of 

 pottery figures. 



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